STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FORUM OF INDIA [SEFI]

Dear Dr. N. Subramanian, Eng. S. Arun Kumar, Eng. S. Jayakumar and fellow Sefians,
I am confused about the load combinations to be used for the modelling, analysis and design of RC Buildings with bas ...

Dear Sefians,
While designing multi-storeyed RC Buildings in Zone V, we often find that larger sections of concrete and larger percentage of rebars are required at lower storeys while for upper store ...

Dear Sefians,

In an RC Framed Buildings, shear walls are constructed often between RC columns in the grid. My queries are: will not the RC columns at the edges of shear walls act as boundary elemen ...

Dear Sukanta Adhikari Sir,
Would you please refer the page number in the book by Pauli & Priestley pertaining to this clause on check for axial compressive stress? I tried but failed to find the ...

Dear Respected Dr. N. Subramanian Sir,
Could you please throw some light on how to design boundary elements of a RC Shear Wall as per [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][HIGHLIGHT=#dee3e7]IS ...

Dear Respected Dr. Subramanian Sir,
Sorry for directly addressing you in this forum since I could not get response from fellow Sefians on this topic. I am particularly interested in application of IS ...

Dear Sefians,
Can somebody upload calculation design example of RC Shear wall as per IS 13920: 2016?
with regards,
Aditya

Dear Sefians,
I would like to know from the code committee members whether there is any preparation going on to release explanatory handbook on the newly released codes- IS 1893 Part 1: 2016 and IS 1 ...

Dear Er. [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][HIGHLIGHT=#dee3e7]Mukesh Upadhyay Sir,[/HIGHLIGHT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][HIGHLIGHT=#dee3e7]Thanks a lot for your su ...

Dear Sefians,
I need to carrry out seismic analysis and design of a multi-storeyed building in Zone V. As per clause 6.3.3.1 of IS 1893: Part 1-2016, we need to consider vertical earthquake effects. ...